Suggested Themes IUG-SA 2019
Acquisitions and Serials
- Accounting with Sierra
- Fund codes management
- Fiscal close
- Workflows print vs electronic
- Collection management for print and electronic resources)
Cataloguing and Authorities
- The importance of authority work to the discoverability and the ILS
- What you need to know about BIBFRAME
- Implementation of RDA
- Linked data
- Tips and tools for novice cataloguers
- Load profiles
Circulation and user services
- Loan rules/system cleanup
- Dealing with Reserves
- Circulation and circulation reports
- Practical tips and tricks for circulation
- Circulation Holds management
- Future of self-service
- Impact of self-checkout on staff productivity
- How to serve virtual customers
Digital/Asset management
- Managing e-book, e-journal, and e-audiobook collections
- Weeding vs. rightsizing vs. collection adjustment
- Digital Repository (VITAL, Dublin Core, MODS)
ETools
- WorldShare Record Manager
- VIAF
- Library of Congress
- OpenRefine
Resource Sharing
Reports and Statistics
- How to use reports/going beyond the numbers
- Decision Center
Search/Discovery
- Improving the user discovery experience
- Webpac/PAC specific sessions (not Encore)
- Encore customization
- Nuts and bolts of Encore Duet
System Administration
- Beginner system administration
- Advanced system administrator tasks in the digital age
- IT security
- Decision making and assessment
- Create Lists – tips and tricks (Classic/Enhanced/JSON)
- Patron Authentication (WAM, etc.)
- Auto renewals
- Scheduler
- Sierra API Rest APIs & Keys
- Sierra Admin (Putty)
General
- Tips for database cleanup
- General management
- Disaster prevention and recovery
- Using MarcEdit
- Best practices for: circulation, cataloging, serials, acquisitions, collection development
- Print templates
- Program Registration
- Harvesting (Encore/Digital repositories)
- Server administration
- IT Security
- Next Generation librarianship